Date: 06/24/07     Keywords: web

It's Sunday, I am slightly hungover. Bare with me.

I need whateveryoucall it, that uploads program, that uploads/edits/fixes your website.
I used to use a ws_ftp thingy when I used windows.
now I have a Mac.

I do not do web design normally (hence my lacking of proper terms) but I want to fix up my website
and I need a REALLY easy mac program to do so.

Fetch confuses the hell out of me (hangs head down in shame). Any advice you can give or help online through AIM (yes I know you have cooler things to do) would be appreciated. And major good karma points I'm sure.

thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1270155.html

Date: 06/23/07     Keywords: web

Hi there, I was hoping someone would be able to help me with a font/resolution problem.

You see, I just got a new computer and the resolution is 1440 x 900. And I realized that the resolution affects the way certain sites look.

The font at this website looked normal with my old resolution (1024 x 768) but now it looks more like this.

My website is currently down but I used the same font. So is there anyway to get the font to look normal on all screen resolutions? Or am I always going to be facing this problem with websites using that font?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1269959.html

Date: 06/22/07     Keywords: web

What's the best way to make web site text look smooth or use appealing fonts (that aren't times new roman, etc) without using graphics?

Best way to embed fonts into code? (Is this it?)

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1269509.html

Date: 06/22/07     Keywords: browser, virus, web

(please note... i'm a novice and do websites for fun!)

Argh!!! I'm having a bit of rubbish time.... I'm putting together a website called www.pinup-parade.com, to showcase European-based vintage-style pin-up. Obviously this involves using photos. But because I really don't like clunky galleries or flash-heavy ones, or the kind of galleries that are a headache to customise, I thought the easiest option would be to have a simple table with a thumbnail in each cell, and then on clicking the thumbnail, a pop-up of the full-size image.

I've just put up the first gallery, and I'm pleased with it. It's clean, and it needs a couple of tweaks, but it does its job. I've tried it on 4 different computers (one at home, 3 at work) and they're all fine.

I've sent the URL to some friends, and some can get on the page - but curiously some people can't get the page to load at all.

Initially I thought this was because the site was down, but it can't be down that much! My thought is that perhaps some browsers or virus thingies are so geared up to block pop-ups that they won't even load a page if it contains pop-up script. Would I be right? I have a suspicion that it might be UK-based AOL users who can't get on the site.

The way round this would be of course to have a separate page for each full-size picture, but it would be a bit annoying and would fill up my directories....

Does anyone know a way round this? If you can help, you get to look at pictures of pretty ladies in old dresses!

Click here to see the page - and if nothing loads, let me know!

Edit: Someone's just said that they can't get on that page, nor even the site's front page. It's an add-on domain (or parked or something... the terms confuse me), so it's actually hosted within rockinscene.com

Could it be a problem with the url pinup-parade.com not resolving properly? But I don't understand why it would work for some people and not others!

If you can't getthat link up there to work, try this one.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Edit #2: The people who couldn't get it load before now can... But I don't understand what was going on. This hasn't happened to me before!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1269489.html

Date: 06/21/07     Keywords: css, html

I recently started to customize my journal. Since I am only a beginner where CSS is concerned, that doesn't prove easy. Although I did manage to do the main stuff already, I still need help with the details. So does anybody of you know how I can change the style of the tag-box? So tha my tags wouldn't be listed as a cloud anymore, but rather as a list (without the middots though!). I noticed that other journals display the tag box that way, so I guess there is a way.
Also, how can I change the position of my journals title and the links ("Recent Entries", "Friends", etc.)? I'm going crazy over this, I'm trying stuff, but since I started just about five days ago, it's still a little confusing for me. I've been writing HTML for years, but somehow that's not the same.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1269006.html

Date: 06/21/07     Keywords: web

Hi!

I have a question that may or may not be easy to answer. I am redesigning the website for my college's classics department and I'd really like it to look better than all the others, so I'm trying out coding I've never used before. So far I've not made too much progress because I'm stuck on one idea that I don't know how to do. I'd like the links at the bottom (which are roll-over images, not text links) to become a menu that pops out above when the link is rolled over. Here is all I have so far.

I found this site and thought it was perfect to use as an example of what I was thinking of. Only I think they're using Flash and I don't know how to use that for webpages, so could anyone tell me how I might accomplish this, or if that is too difficult, could anyone point me in the direction of a helpful tutorial? I've been searching, believe me, but so far found nothing that combines bottom vertical roll-over expanding menus and roll-over text images as the main links.

Thanks!!
Courtney

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1268947.html

Date: 06/20/07     Keywords: web

Hi. I have a potential client that wants me to develop a web style guide for them similar to this. I'll have to develop a few story boards to base the style guide on, but their in-house designers and coders will actually be implementing everything and using the guide as a reference for redesigning and updating the site going forward. The site is very large and therefor the style guide will have to be fairly detailed so I gather it will likely take quite a few hours to put together. I realize I can charge my hourly rate and guesstimate how many hours it may take, but really, it would be just that - a guesstimate.

Has anyone ever done a project like this and if so, do you have any idea what to charge?

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1268729.html

Date: 06/19/07     Keywords: web

I am really frustrated and hope somebody can help me figure this out.  I've been working on a new version of my website for quite some time now.

http://www.bodacia.com

As of a few weeks ago, the site looked pretty similar in both IE and Firefox. Now, all of a sudden, Firefox is not picking up a whole bunch of the formatting, and I'm left wondering what the heck I did wrong. Yes, I have been tweaking the style sheet a bit here and there...but I didn't think it was anything that would majorly affect the overall design of the site.

The way the site looks in IE is the way it's supposed to look -- i.e., trebuchet and arial fonts; green navigation bar at the top ("nav" and "navinner" on style sheet); and left-hand-side navigation box ("newsbox" and "innernews" on style sheet). But when I view it in Firefox, I see all times new roman font and default bullets where the nav bar and nav box should be.  Any ideas for how I can get Firefox to once again pick up the correct formatting -- fonts, green nav back, nav box on the left, etc.?

What's really weird is that the subsites of my main site (www.bodacia.com/chauncey and www.bodacia.com/house) look like they're supposed to in Firefox.  So why doesn't the main site???

Anyway, any help/insight would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you so much! :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1268404.html

Date: 06/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

So far I only know how to apply a singular style to an entire tag.    Is there not a way to stylize parts of an option tag, like this... 

Hello World

(pardon the depreciated markup, just using it for an example)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1268181.html

Date: 06/18/07     Keywords: web

I was wondering if anybody out there had any good recommendations for websites that provide music. Things that would be good as background music on video, flash, etc. The type of stuff that hopefully won't make people go flying for the mute button.

Sites with royalty free stuff, decent service, etc.

Disclaimer: I hate music on websites, specially the type that play automagically. (before anybody yells at me :D)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1267736.html

Date: 06/18/07     Keywords: web

I run a website for a local non-profit, and we publish our monthly newsletter online via pdf's. Most people do not have a problem clicking the file and it opens. A small few click the link and nothing happens, very odd. Naturally the people who are having the problem are running IE7, has anyone else seen this problem?

For that matter when I print to PDF (Acrobat Pro 8) all my files are rotated for some reason, what is up with that?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1267563.html

Date: 06/17/07     Keywords: web

i want to post a flash web site, do you know any domains, that arent that exoensive but with a good or not so bad quality?

thanks*

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1267252.html

Date: 06/17/07     Keywords: php, html, web

Hi guys,

I'm needing to create a paid-membership site. I know it's rare but does anyone know of a place where I can purchase such a package already pre-made?

Here's what I want. I want people to be able to buy subscriptions in order to view ALL of the content available on my site. Imagine a subscription for an online magazine.

I'm good with html and php (basically) but I'm just not familiar with how to go about creating this.

I'm also thinking of maybe hiring a freelancer from hireme.com

Suggestions on where to start looking to find what I'm looking for?

I know it's vague/confusing. I'm not horrible at web design, but what I do know doesn't go much beyond php (nuke, that kinda thing) and such. I've never done any paid subscription type things before.

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1267005.html

Date: 06/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hi there.

My work is wanting to post videos online. They will most likely be around 4 - 8 minutes in length and just be people sitting around being interviewed.

I would really appreciate any advice on the best way to handle this.

My only experience with online video is importing short clips into flash and posting with progressive download. So this is new for me.

I'm not sure if they have a streaming server or not as the servers are located off-site with the parent company.

Also, is Flash the best thing to use? What do you think about WMV? My coworker seems to be into those, but I don't think they look all that great and there's probably other issues.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1266676.html

Date: 06/15/07     Keywords: html, web

Hi all...



I have been composing HTML emails for a company I do work for through Constant Contact for a long time. Since I've embroiled myself in the world of HTML email, I'd like to be able to send them myself.



This has turned me onto the fact that very few email clients actually allow you to compose HTML email. Wikipedia tells me Thunderbird will let you, but bizarrely, whenever I try to download Thunderbird and open it, everything freezes and I have to force quit or force restart.



I'm on a Mac. A few Macs, actually. Primarily I'm using OS 10.3.9. Can anyone suggest an email client to me (or tell me what the heck is up with Thunderbird)?



Thanks!



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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1266401.html

Date: 06/14/07     Keywords: php, database, tracker, google

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1266101.html

Date: 06/14/07     Keywords: asp, web

The person's website I'm working on wants a top banner/image that will partially slide through a series of images. Eg. http://www.rapidascent.com.au/asp/AnacondaEventChooser.asp (on the left, not the right sliding logos).

I only know of two ways to do this:
- Flash
- GIF

The question I have is:
- the demographic for the site is apparently "older" and in regional areas (dial up), would Flash kill their computers in terms of requiring Macromedia and etc?
- Would the GIF file be too big for their dial up?

Any suggestions on other ways I can do it?

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1265212.html

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: web

hi there, im creating a website for my biology class in dreamwever, wich i dont quite get and i cant realy find the tuts online to help me. i know about flash, but i cant seem to aply it to dreamweaver. for instance, i dont know how to upload a button you did on flash. and hoe to put a link in it... and how can i put up a news scroling journal like thing, so i can edit it online?
thanks and heres the link, tough its always changing as im just trying to work things out at the moment.

:)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1264642.html

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

Anyone use MovableType4 beta yet? Now I need to figure out if I should stick to working with MT3 or if I should move to MT4, OR if I should just start trying to learn drupal.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1264581.html

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: web, yahoo

whats a simple way of getting that sunbeam effect over a background like above? is there a fireworks shortcut or anything? (image taken from a Yahoo newsletter email)

ALSO... FYI cool firefox add-on for web developers here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1264196.html